DoingsI'm spending much of my time these days working with Habitat for Humanity. I intended to write about it -- still do! -- but found the actual experience far more interesting than sitting at a keyboard; at the end of the day, you feel like you've accomplished something. The same cannot be said of writing, or teaching.... I've mostly worked with my local affiliate, Housatonic Habitat of Danbury, Connecticut, but also with the Habitat affiliate in Bridgeport, Conn., which is very "inner city." But for all the rewards of working in the U.S., what I've really fallen for is Habitat's "Global Village" www.habitat.org/ In June 2002 I also spent a week outside Durban, South Africa, on Habitat's annual Jimmy Carter Work Project. Now that was *real* work -- up by 5 am, often working until 8 pm, and having to meet building deadlines at least once a day. But we 4,000-plus volunteers did, in fact, complete 100 houses. Interested? Check out the Habitat International website, above, or e-mail me. I can send (I think!) articles on the JCWP and DR builds I wrote for my local newspaper, which has just begun charging for archive access. |
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